1st February 2014 - part of the black and white February challenge
I originally joined this site with a number of others from a discussion board - all of whom have fallen by the wayside for a number of reasons. Photography because it scratched my arty tendencies faster than painting. (And that took me so long to remember how to post a picture in to the discussion, thanks to @farmreporter for her tips.)
I got into photography many years ago. My mother thought I had the talent to paint as I liked to doodle. I did try painting but it wasn't for me. I then received a Minolta SLR film camera and came across an Ansel Adams photo of Yosemite and fell in love with black and white photography. I took a couple of courses in developing and printing. When digital cameras came on the scene I got completely hooked.
@skipt07 I normally do read your narrative, and quote, but was in a rush tonight and completely skipped it.
Probably back in my childhood. Always been interested in birds and nature and saw one of Eric Hoskings books and wanted to take photographs like him.
Had a twin lens thing as a kid, then quite a decent SLR later on, but film and colour developing was expensive, especially when things don't just stand still in front of you.
Had another go once digital came along and could practise to my hearts content.
@markp - Thank you, Mark. I'm sure your photography has improved dramatically since your twin reflex days. I mentioned in my post about taking two courses. One was black and white, the other was supposed to be for color. That never happened due to the high cost of Cibachrome kits which only developed slide film. The chemical temperatures needed to be so precise the instructor never did show us how to develop.
@skipt07 Wow, what got me into photography...well, years ago, when things were still film, I bought a used camera and started just shooting, and shooting got me slow down and look! Took a long time to switch todigital and then started shooting again and took very nice shots but they all looked the same. So joined here, and then things "took off" ....Still a "meditation" of sorts. Thanks for asking, makes me think!
@granagringa - Thank you Madeline, for sharing how you got involved in photography. I had a bumpy transition from film to digital. Mostly because of the difference in cameras and lenses. The film cameras had all the markings on the lens barrels for f stop and depth of field indicators. All those appear on a screen with digital cameras.
@skipt07 what got me over the hump of getting into photography was a prof photog telling me to ignore all the menus and just go back to iso, aperture, and shutter speed! The rest is dressing.
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I originally joined this site with a number of others from a discussion board - all of whom have fallen by the wayside for a number of reasons. Photography because it scratched my arty tendencies faster than painting. (And that took me so long to remember how to post a picture in to the discussion, thanks to @farmreporter for her tips.)
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I got into photography many years ago. My mother thought I had the talent to paint as I liked to doodle. I did try painting but it wasn't for me. I then received a Minolta SLR film camera and came across an Ansel Adams photo of Yosemite and fell in love with black and white photography. I took a couple of courses in developing and printing. When digital cameras came on the scene I got completely hooked.
Probably back in my childhood. Always been interested in birds and nature and saw one of Eric Hoskings books and wanted to take photographs like him.
Had a twin lens thing as a kid, then quite a decent SLR later on, but film and colour developing was expensive, especially when things don't just stand still in front of you.
Had another go once digital came along and could practise to my hearts content.